Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1873 — Hiving Bees. [ARTICLE]

Hiving Bees.

A CORRESPONDENT of the National Bee Journal gives his plan of hiving bees thus: Soule say that some swarms come out,and go direct from the hive to the woods; but in the time that I have kept bees, I never had such an instance. In the first place, I prepare my hive. I generally put a piece of comb into the hive to attract them. I keep the hive in the shade and, when the bees come out, they will alight on some tree near by them. Take the hive, and rub the inside with lemon balm, or it will do without; putin the shade of the tree, on the table; -tip the hive back! enough to let the bees enter; put a board eighteen inches square, or a cloth, in front of the hive, and take the bees down and put them on it. Then take cold water from the well, and with a hand broombrush sprinkle cold water on the ground, and a trifle on them, and they will soon go up. Repeat this in twenty minutes and continue till the hottest part of the day is past. As soon as.they are nearly, all in, remove the bld hive, and put the new one where the old one stood, and put a board over to keep the sun and rain off.